Brian Eno fará 60 anos de idade no próximo mês de Maio, data da edição da biografia On Some Faraway Beach, da autoria de David Sheppard, que contou com a colaboração do artista. Seguirei por certo fazendo referências ao seu trabalho, predominantemente o musical. Com desvios de puro prazer para o diário que venho lendo sem pressas. Em 2008, como se vê, os protagonistas continuarão sendo eu e ELE:[…] Bono stars to form the idea that this could be a song about being besieged, people trying to carry on doing ordinary things (playing piano, buying shoes) while their city is being shelled. Interesting evolution of a vocal idea: he starts with a line that goes, ‘Is there a time for cutting hair?’, this gradually moving into ‘Is there a time for this and that and the other?’, in his new list-making style of writing. Then I suggest that other voices do the first half of each line – I’m thinking Motown – so Edge and I (now known as the E-notes) sing, ‘Is there a time …’ and Bono responds with the rest of the line. We do it again, alternating ‘Is there a time’ and ‘a time’ so ending up with ‘Is there a time … a time … is there a time … a time’ but on each second stanza the last line becomes just ‘Is there a time?’ Of course, Bono, being a natural-born singer, ends up filling every available space and singing over our bits as well, which I keep saying doesn’t sound so good, but which he just can’t help doing. It doesn’t sound so bad either. Singers are like Arabs: they abhor a vacuum. And a vacuum is defined as ‘when I’m not singing’.
But the result is really charmed – a misty, melancholy bitter-sweetness undercut by the sharpness of the setting: the Miss Sarajevo Beauty Contest (where a group of Bosnian artists and their girlfriends put on an elaborately kitsch beauty pagent while the Serbs are shelling Sarajevo). It’s so straightforward working with men like this – no ego decisions, no politics. We think this may be the song for Pavarotti (who phoned again). […]
[Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, entrada de 24 Maio 1995]
But the result is really charmed – a misty, melancholy bitter-sweetness undercut by the sharpness of the setting: the Miss Sarajevo Beauty Contest (where a group of Bosnian artists and their girlfriends put on an elaborately kitsch beauty pagent while the Serbs are shelling Sarajevo). It’s so straightforward working with men like this – no ego decisions, no politics. We think this may be the song for Pavarotti (who phoned again). […]
[Brian Eno, A Year With Swollen Appendices, entrada de 24 Maio 1995]
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